Although this is a Bloodhound, it isn’t an Italian one. I’m hot on the trail of one right now…
In last week’s Cartoon Hour, everyone was drawing dogs. One of the partipants was drawing some Italian Bloodhounds, however, they were turning out a little too ‘hound dog’, and she wanted to them to look a little sillier.
In this article we’re going to look at a few tricks to make drawings sillier.
It’s In The Eyes!
Seeing as our attention always goes immediately to someone’s eyes, let’s start off there.
First off all, draw a row of blank eyes like so:
Now draw some eyeballs, trying to make each set progressively sillier.
Move Those Features!
Now you’ve loosened up your silliness muscles a bit, let’s look at some other features of the body.
We’re going to enlist the help of Rex here.
Next I’m going to make Rex here a bit sillier step-by-step-step.
Here Rex is in the starting posture as in the previous image.
I’ve moved the eyeballs closer together, opened the mouth a bit more, and raised the ears. The tongue is also sticking out more.
The ears are now even more up in the air, the eyeballs going in separate directions, and the tail is a wavy shape. Wavy lines can help to add instant silliness.
I’ve now exaggerated the movement of the features a lot more, and got the limbs moving as well in an odd way.
Summary of Silliness
Play around with the eye balls
Have ears, tongue etc. move around in unusual ways
Get the body moving in a more dynamic way. It doesn’t have to be a natural pose - it’s a cartoon, so feel free to exaggerate and stretch things a bit.
